Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💟Heart Decoration Emoji
Generally, it means you’re feeling love or affection. People use it to show they care about someone or something in a sweet way.
The 💟 emoji shows a heart with a decorative outline.
- Unicode
- U+1F49F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :heart_
decoration: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💟 Heart Decoration emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Heart Decoration emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the heart decoration has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Heart Decoration emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :heart_decoration:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the heart decoration, code point U+1F49F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💟 Heart Decoration emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F49F when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Heart Decoration emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the heart decoration as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Heart Decoration emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around heart decoration for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 💟 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 💟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F49F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
💟 vs ❤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Heart Decoration
Code: U+1F49F · added 2010
Shortcode: :heart_decoration:
Generally, it means you’re feeling love or affection.
Unicode name: Red Heart
Code: U+2764 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :heart:
Generally, when someone sends you a ❤️, they’re expressing that they care about you and they like you.
11 — History
Where the 💟 Heart Decoration emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F49F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💟 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F8, KDDI au E595, SoftBank E204.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Heart Decoration was approved as U+1F49F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💟 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ